Improvement in machines for ruling and copying



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Letters Patent No. 107,795, dated September 27,1870.

IIVIPROVEIVIENT` IN MACHINES FOR RULING AND COPYING.

` The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and part of the sanie- I, GREEN llzIcHnNnY,` of Louisa, in the "county of Lawrence and `State of Kentucky, have invented a `-new and improved Guide andGange for Oopying,Ru `ing, and other purposes, of 7which theffollowing isa.

specification.

' Nature and Objects" of the I creation.

lhe apparatus which is.'` the` subject of my in vention is constructed with a base-frame, within `which-maybe ,placed the paper lon. which any matter is tof be copied from a book, orv from another manuscript.` i X y y The said 'hook or manuscript is held iny convenient position bya second *traine supported on a car- `riage sliding within the rst, and provided with a bar passing across the page, and moved, ,thronghthe vmedium of connections hereinafter described, by the moi tion ofv said carriage.

` 4A at bar, extending iomA side toside of the carriage across thepaper -being written upon, affords convenient `means ofshifting the carriage and the guide-bar from.` time to time, as the work progresses. i i

The lower transverse bar, which is attached to the sliding carriage, serves asa ruler, when regllirsd, and, for distinction will be termed the ruler- @L 'AF graduated scale, over lwhich the upper guidebar moves, aicrds a gauge for ruling lines accurately `at any distance, by means of the ruler-bar, and a `horlzontal scale `uponthe lower part of the mova-` ble frame may serve as a gauge for vertical ruling.

Description of thaAccompaitying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus, as arranged `ioroperation. y i

Figure 2 is a diagram illustrating a modification in` the arrangement of the cords and pulleys, for the guide-bar, as may he required.-

` purpose of graduating the relative movement of the General Description. The stationary frame may consist of two rails, A

O, which runs therein upon wheels D D. f

The book or copy-frame E is hinged to the carriage C, and supported at any convenient angle by braces F..- i

Gisthre ruler-bar, reachiiig'acl'oss the front of the "carriage, and held by pins or` staples H H, upon which itmay slide freely up and down, so as' to rest i upon the surface of a body `of paper' of any thickness.`

I is the guide-bar, attached at its ends to cords J ends of the rails A A. i Ihe said cords, passing around pulleys L L at the upper and lower parts of the carriage, carry the This arrangement is shown in tig. 1. A

As there represented,"the motion oft-Iieguidebar I down-or up the face of' the hook-frame will be precisely equal to any motion imparted to the carriage C. Y f

The scale M therefore, which accurately gauges the motion of the bar I, serves thereby-as a gauge for the; position and Vmovement of the ruler-bar G.

Thehorizontal'scale N is useful in vertical,.ruling to find thecenter or other desired part of th paper, orfor ruling marginal or other vertical linesat any on diierent sheets.

co1ds,`by which I am enabled to impart a less relative motion to the guide-bar I, under a `given movement ofthe 'carriage G, or to graduate said relative movements, as may bedesired. In -this case, the primary cords J J pass around the pulleys L at. the lower edge of vthe book-frame, without passing to its upper edge.Y l

The guide-bar is then attached'to secondary cords leysP I", above and around pulleys Q Q, attached to the pulleys L, and of smaller diameter than said pulleys.

1 By forming the pulleys Q with a number of grooves or sheaves, ofV successively smaller diameter, and having a similar plurality of graduated sheaves on the upperipulleys I P, o1' ,any other device to maintain the tension of the cords, the relative movement of the bar I can be regulated as desired.

0peratiou.

A book` or manuscript being -placed within the copy-frame E, and the paper to be written on between the rails A A beneath the ruler-bar G", the

vit is attached, until the guide-bar I comes under the first line. When this is copied, it is moved again to the extent of another line.

The bar I thus forms a constant guide to aid the eye in following the matter to' be copied, and as the writing proceeds down the page, the carriage follows it.

The manner of using the-device for ruling has already been' made clear.

J, the ends of which. are ixed to'pins K K,near the guide-bar down, as the carriage'is drawn forward, y and move it iup, as the carriage 1s moved backward.

desired distances' from the edges, crlat equal distances In fig. 2 isshcwn a modified arrangement of the `O 0, which are endless, and pass' around idle pullatter is drawn forward with the carriageto which Claims. i 4. The combination ofthe ruler-bar G, carriage C, I Claim as my inveution i gltlnalllis'srggar I, andA gauge or'seaie M., sub- 1. Thecarriave O and copy-'ame E operatino in connection, subsotantiaiiy as herein set forth. o GREEN MOHBNRY 2. The sliding guide-bar I, operating in connection with the copy-immo E, in substantially the manner Witnesses: Y described. Ocuvxns KNIGHT,

3. The combination of the sliding bars G and I, H. C. ELLIOTT. with their connections, substantially as described. 

